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Thursday, 19 January 2017

Catholic and Catholism has its root in yoruba deity, Osoosi- Ooni of Ife says

The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has said that Catholics and
Catholism has its source from the Yoruba deity, Osoosi. Ooni said this
at the celebration of the Osoosi deity believed to be the father of
philanthropy and religious congregation for purity and sanity, in Ile
Ife Osun state Tuesday January 17th.He said:

"This is a landmark festival for us. Mankind started from the tropical
Africa and it is the most populous. This is one of the historical
landmarks to prove that everything started from the continent of Africa
and Nigeria which is the most populous nation that belongs to the black
race. We are here at the Osoosi and Obatala temples to celebrate.
Osoosi's temple is where the gathering (religious) started from.
Religion should be used to preach peace and unity.

We must do what we preach and the foundation must be solid. The entire
black race should see this as their culture and tradition. We have to
propel it well. We are not hiding anything. We are preaching peace,
unity and peaceful co-existence which is the problem of many societies
in Africa. Believing in the positivity of our ancestral religion will
help to solve all these problems.

"The guardian that Osoosi used was called 'Ka to ka ki ki ki, ka fi enu
re so le' in which catholic and catholism came from. It is the
congregation that led to Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam; many
other religions started from here. It is the house of God. What they do
here is to take care of the less privileged people, the downtrodden,
the oppressed, and people that are low in spirit and that has been
happening up till date. But when westernisation came, all the cultures
and traditions were bastardised.

People were made to believe that they are not good things. What we do
basically is nature driven and we want to showcase to the world that
indeed everything started from here. Osoosi came to this world thousands
of years before Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad (SAW) came. It is one
of the early creations of God. We need to showcase our culture, nobody
can do that for us. We need to let the whole world know."

He also likened the Osoosi's feature of not bearing children to the Catholic pope's restriction from marrying.

"Just as Osoosi destined not to giving birth to children, so also is the
popes at the Roman catholic. There are many good things from the
African religion and those in Rome can not dispute it," he added.